07/10/2021
Does letting go help you heal!!
I’m not sure how letting go opens the space for small (and big ) wonders in life, but it does. Sometimes it works like magic.
For example, someone who I thought was a good friend did something that really hurt my feelings. I never told her that I was hurt, but I let the relationship slip away and hadn’t been in touch for almost a year.
However, watching a splendid sunrise over the water while walking along the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle, I decided that it was time to just let it all go. Life was too short to hold on to my perceived grievances with this individual.
I picked up a smooth black stone from the shore, held it to my heart and imagined the pain from this relationship filling the stone. I then threw the stone as far as I could into the lake, with the intent that I was letting it all go. As the stone sunk into the sunlit water, I could feel my heart lightening.
Here’s what’s amazing. When I got home, there was a message on my answer machine. (This was before smart phones.) It was a message from this woman. She deeply and profoundly apologized for how I had been treated and hoped that I could forgive her.
I never told her that I was hurt, yet almost the instant that I let it go, she reached out. Wow!
Isn’t it amazing how letting go can work. The rift was healed and we became very good friends again. it all started with letting go.
Letting go isn’t always easy, but there is power in symbolic acts. The symbolic act of taking stone, infusing it with your intentions, and then throwing it into the sea or a lake, (or burying it, or cleansing it in free flowing water) can help the process. Consider giving a try.
So strange how life works, this post started to be about the fish in our pond and also the bats here at the house and it morphed into something completely different. I’m assuming that there is a reason. Ah well, here’s to a lovely day . . . my wondrous fellow Soul Traveler!
